Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify journalist
We’ve been looking into reports of a fire at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk in the Tatarstan region some 900km (550 miles) east of Moscow.
Looking through social media, we’ve found several videos that show a fire burning at the refinery, as people look on from a distance away.
We located the site by matching up features in the video - such as distillation columns and buildings - with similar features on satellite pictures and street-level imagery available on mapping from Google and its Russian equivalent, Yandex.
Telegram channel Exilenova+ reports the complex is run by Nizhnekamskneftekhim, which makes synthetic rubbers, plastics and other products.
Local authorities say the blaze has been extinguished and no casualties were reported. It is unclear what caused the fire.
The same site was targeted by a Ukrainian drone attack last April. At the time, it was the deepest drone attack inside Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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